Diseminaciones. Revista de Investigación y Crítica en Humanidades y Ciencias Sociales es una publicación semestral editada por la Universidad Autónoma de Querétaro (UAQ) a través de la Facultad de Lenguas y Letras. La revista publica artículos de investigación originales escritos en idioma español, portugués e inglés, de impacto en el área de las humanidades y las ciencias sociales. Trabajamos con una adaptación de las normas de la American Psychological Asociation (APA). Los artículos de investigación son dictaminados por pares académicos por el método de doble ciego.
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An eschatology of the narcotelenovela: visions and versions
This essay explores the inheritances that the colombian narcotelenovela received from three different narrative aspects: melodrama, thriller and neo-police. Through the rescue of these inheritances, conceptualized from the academy, we will see the articulation and transformation of a popular genre into a specific product that tried to narrate day by day the flip side of a hegemonic story that, once exhausted, gave way to its own parody. The result is that narcotelenovela are a conceptually complex subgenre, but also capable of opening a democratic reflection on ignored responsibilities. The essay concludes that this exercise has allowed the telenovela, understood as an entertainment narrative, to advance in the reelaboration of a pending chapter in the history of Colombia and, on the other hand, to extend this demystifying analysis to the biographical series, which have come replace and/or continue the narcotelenovelas in television offer.
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Díaz Uribe, D. (2020). Itinerario intelectual de Antonio Acevedo Escobedo. Ciudad de México: Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México. ISBN: 978-607-30-3181-3
Vicenteño, P. y Rivera, Y. (Eds.). (2024). José Tomás de Cuéllar. Obras XIV. Periodismo III. Historietas (1869-1884). Vistazos (1874-1892). Ciudad de México: Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México. ISBN: 978-607-30-9240-1
Strange passions: Lorenzo’s case in Hermana de los ángeles by Florencio M. del Castillo
This article analyzes the masculine representation of the character of Lorenzo in Florencio María del Castillo’s Hermana de los ángeles, based on the postulates on the romantic character offered by Doris Sommer, Ana G. Fernández Chouciño, among others. In addition, it is contrasted with the content of the mexican sentimental short novel of first half of the nineteenth century to investigate the differences in the con figuration of Lorenzo with respect to other stories and characters of his time. In this way, it is postulated that his representation is close to that of the romantic masculine character, which appeared later during the second half of the nineteenth century.
The “ideological-abominable”: the inability to protect the “child of the night” in Un lugar soleado para gente sombría, by Mariana Enríquez
This article proposes to turn into literay motif a recurrent theme in Mariana Enríquez’s books such as Los peligros de fumar en la cama (2021), Las cosas que perdimos en el fuego (2016), and, in her last volume of short stories, Un lugar soleado para gente sombría (2024): the “vicarious motherhood”. Drawing on concepts from the theory of the fantastic by Roas (2001) and Bessière (2001), as well as psychoanalytical and sociological aspects by Vegetti (1993), Saletti Cuesta (2008) and Žižek (2009) that, it will be argued that the origin of terror lies, in many of her protagonists, in the impossibility of a vindication of those who have been left in the most vulnerable positions of a society that has been devastated economically and politically (women, homeless and, above all, children). This situation triggers in its narrators a shudder that, by not having a possible canalization or implementation, takes the form of fantasy sublimation, and therefore, of a recognition that the fearful element will actually be within the usual happenings, as opposed to the imaginary. The marked protective impulse of the main characters —which, ultimately, cannot prevent the social damage— will give rise to this procedure, typical of Mariana Enriquez’s literature and which, from this work onwards, will be referred to as “ideological-ominous”.
The writing of Francisco Núñez Muley and Francisco Nayari: an approach to linguistic-cultural mediation in a moorish memorial and a cora letter
In 1649, the tonati cora Francisco Nayari addressed a letter in nahuatl to the bishop of Guadalajara, where he assures him that his people remain faithful to christianity and the viceregal authorities, unlike their Tepehuan neighbors, who rebelled against them. Nayari’s letter can be related to the Memorial en defensa de las costumbres moriscas (1566) of the Granada moorish Francisco Núñez Muley, who justifies that the conversion to christianity of his fellow citizens is sincere and asks the authorities not to prohibit them from practicing their customs, since these do not endanger the evangelization project. This paper proposes a comparative approach to both documents, following the line of researchers who have dealt with the similarities between the conquest and the evangelization of the spanish moors and the indigenous people in New Spain. We take as a guide the concept of “linguistic-cultural mediation”, framing within this category some of the discursive strategies used in the texts.
Masculinity in Ignacio Manuel Altamirano’s novel El Zarco: narrative construction of two antagonistic visions
This paper analyzes the predominant masculine models in Manuel Altamirano’s novel El Zarco, within the framework of the values inspired by early Mexican modernity. We explore possibilities of literary interpretation offered by the idea of masculinity, by investigating the processes that shape the narrative discourse, understood as a sociocultural construction of complex interrelationships that establish social practices. Thus, we reflect on the epistemology of enlightenment thought and its influence on the liberal ideology, to which the author adheres. This article shows how in this novel Altamirano constructs two models of masculinity: one oriented to the nineteenth century proposal of the good man; the other, to an antagonistic masculinity in the figure of the bandit.
The role of the Sorge in literary hermeneutics: disagreements and conciliations between the approaches of Horst-Jürgen Gerigk and Paul Ricoeur
This article analyzes the role of the heideggerian Sorge (care) in the theoretical proposals of Horst-Jürgen Gerigk and Paul Ricoeur on the interpretative act of the literary work, precisely, the narrative. This notion is understood from the ricoeurian perspective as the existential condition of human action in the world that is projected to be understood through the mediation of narrative function. In this context, the narrative would provide the reader with an explanatory model that can also shape his care. On the other hand, Gerigk is mainly interested in omitting the care at the reading comprehension level. His purpose is to highlight the situational structure of the literary work itself. Despite the supposed polarity, a detailed reading of ricoeurian analysis about textuality will superimpose the narrative configuration over the receptive prejudice, which will allow an arbitration between both perspectives.
The author as participant in the artistic event. A look at the Mexican Revolution from three perspectives: Los de abajo by Mariano Azuela (1916), Los de abajo by Chano Urueta (1939) and Los de abajo by Servando González (1976)
The objective of this article consists in describing the way in which an historical fact, in this case the Mexican Revolution, can be analyzed from three perspectives: one from literature, and two more through cinema. Although it is the same object, the intentionality, or place where discourse is constructed, changes its form. Thus, based on the postulates of Hayden White (1992) and Mijail Baitjin (1982), it was found that Mariano Azuela, Chano Urueta, and Servando González resort to poetic processes to represent a product with certain ideological content. In this way, these authors become participants of the artistic event.
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A reading of the myth of the end of the world in Tierra, a post-apocalyptic novel by David Miklos
The article proposes a dialectical reading between the myths of the origin and the end recognizable in Tierra, David Miklos’ post-apocalyptical novel. The main idea is that the author suggests a displacement from the uncertainty of the origin to the certitude of an end through the submission of a family and its destruction, in the agreement that in the text family is a symbol of the origin of society as well as the affective relations. The article is divided in three parts: the first, is dedicated to comment the function of the mythical structures in other author’s novels; the second one is destinated to make some precisions about the myths of the origin and the end; finally, the article makes an interpretation of both myths and their development in Tierra.
Teacher training and the history of literacy: the presence of indigenous languages in everyday school life
The article presents various interventions by teachers and other education sector workers who are pursuing a bachelor’s degree in Teaching Reading and Writing for Primary Education, at the National Pedagogical University (Argentina), regarding the presence of indigenous languages in the classrooms and schools where they work. Through these interventions, different levels of analysis are recognized, such as linguistic phenomena that occur in situations of languages in contact, the presence of different varieties of Spanish, and tensions between the language that is required and expected in the school institution and that of the students. The participating colleagues out gaps in their basic training on the subject and describe strategies that have been implemented, that represent an “opportunity” to accommodate indigenous languages in the classroom within the framework.
Argentine literature for children and young adults: folds, resorts and intermediality. Theoretical fiction in María Teresa Andruetto’s work
This article explores the dynamics of the productive interaction between literature with criticism in María Teresa Andruetto’s work. It thus deepens the analysis of La lectura, otra revolución (2015b) and Poesía a la carta. Selección de poemas de María Teresa Andruetto (2019b), focusing on the conceptualization of the language, the readings and the writings. This approach also deals with aspects of editorial policy and mediation operations. The main results show discursive mechanisms that modulate folds, resorts and intermediality between poetics and critical narratives. The conclusions confirm the composition of theoretical fiction.
Vile metal: precarious writings and fragile territories. Notes on Rosario Bléfari’s Diary of money
This article analyzes Rosario Bléfari’s Diary of money (2020) through an autobiographical lens. This writing captures a precarious bios situated in the transition from the late 90s crisis to the early 2000s in Argentina, serving as a reflection of the present. It offers alternative visions of the uncertain territories shaped by neoliberalism, exploring the life of an artist, her emotional networks, her relationship with money, and survival. This writing acts as a suture, a basting stitch that evolves through personal experience and historical context, defying boundaries. In a landscape fragmented by neoliberal forces, Bléfari’s work reconstructs the wounded territories of a world that was collecting remnants and weaving new images of a present on the brink of collapse, revealing forms of resistance and public imagination.
The marginalization of evil in western philosophical tradition. The augustinian conception of evil as regards to logocentrism
The purpose of this work is to analyze the concept of evil to verify its epistemic exclusion in western philosophical tradition. Initially, I will examine the approaches that Jacques Derrida makes concerning the logocentrism and the metaphysics of presence to display the logic of binary oppositions that lie beneath the study of evil. Subsequently, I will analyze Augustine’s of Hippo proposal about the origin of evil to notify the unknowable condition that this concept bears. Hence, in conclusion, I will contrast the premises of the logocentrism with the Augustinian proposal to indicate how evil has been disdain by a logic that privilege a direct approach with the foundation and, at the same time, reject any emplacement that denotes its absence.
The regnum and its polimessage in Valerius Flaccus’ epic: intertextual relationships
The word regnum and its associated meanings witness the passage of the monarchical conception that accompanied the transition from the Roman republic to the Empire; furthermore, this word constitutes an intertextual term that underwent an important transformation from Virgil to Valerius Flaccus. The current article shows a study about the concept in question that in the Augustan poet can be assumed as positive, but due to the incorporation of the destructive aspect that it acquires with Lucan from its terminological association with the word nefas, is received by the flavian in such a way that his Argonautica reflect a paradoxical dichotomy around civil wars, the tyrannical exercise of power and dynastic alternation during the Principate.
The fluidity of memory: autobiographical strategies in María Rivera’s and Guadalupe Nettel’s contributions to Trazos en el espejo. 15 autorretratos fugaces (2011)
According to Sylvia Molloy, autobiographies tend to trust memory without questioning its fallibility or instability. Meanwhile, Paul John Eakin uses neurology to state that identity, as memory, is less a fixed image and more a variable construction. Bringing this idea to autobiography, he questions the traditional configuration of the self as autonomous and invariable. Based on the above, this article analyzes the texts by María Rivera and Guadalupe Nettel included in the book Trazos en el espejo. 15 autorretratos fugaces (2011). Heirs to the mexican autobiographical narrative studied by Claudia L. Gutiérrez Piña (2017) and Humberto Guerra (2017), these authors show, through strategies of variation and iteration, the ways in which the fluidity of memory impacts these new forms of constructing the autobiographic self from the experience of the contemporary mexican women.
Internationalization and interculturality of the curriculum at the Inter-American School of Librarianship (UdeA)
The article presents the Project of Internationalization and Interculturality of the Curriculum (PIIC), developed as part of the Action Plan of the Inter-American School of Librarianship (EIB) of the University of Antioquia, Colombia, socialized in the 4th Latin American Seminar of Intercultural Studies of the Latin American Society of Intercultural Studies (SOLEI), among other institutions of higher education in the region. The text gathers the main results of the project, especially the aspects and criteria related to academic performance defined and evaluated, as well as the main weaknesses, strengths, and recommendations for IBE, as a result of this pilot project.
Inter-American School of Library Science
Subalternity and peripherality from a child’s viewpoint in Fiesta en la madriguera
This article provides an analysis of the novel Fiesta en la madriguera (2010) by Juan Pablo Villalobos. In this approach, it is proposed that the narration in the voice of Tochtli, the son of drug dealer, serves as strategy to illustrate the power relations established between the center and the periphery. Still, it is also a vital element in the humor that is built within the tale, where the vision of this character becomes central. The analysis, from the theoretical viewpoints of Mikhail Bakhtin, Luis Beltrán Almería and Martha Elena Munguía, allows us to study how the unfolding of complex themes is configured, whose duality between the cruel reality and the naive narration causes ambiguity and fragmentariness of the main character and the context that concerns him.
Connecting with the body and inner wisdom: analysis of experiences about Obstetric Violence and collective healing in San Pedro Cholula, Puebla
This article aims to present a social appropriation of the knowledge generated within the support circles during pregnancy in San Pedro Cholula, Puebla, about obstetric violence and its collective healing among the attendees, understanding the construction of knowledge as something that emerges from society, its codes and systems. Obstetric violence has remained invisible under the hegemonic Western medical discourse, which imposes the hierarchical figure of the obstetrician on the feelings and thoughts of pregnant women. By continuing to categorize women as simple users of health services, they are deprived of voice and authority over their bodies. Collaborating with mothers and midwives, sharing rescued knowledge with those who are unaware of pregnancy, childbirth, obstetric violence and the alternatives within the hegemonic medical system, the study evolves, delving into the meanings of individual and collective subjectivities.
Didascalias: desubjectivation in the writing and reading of dramatic text
These pages propose a possible systematisation of the didascalias of the theatrical text as a trace of the multiple subjectivities involved in the processes of writing and reading, dramaturgy and staging. Four main dramaturgical modulations are described in them (narrative, negatory, poetic and staging didascalias) as well as different figures of reading, that manifest themselves in the didascalic writing (specialised, non-specialised, contextual or integral, poetic reading, among others). It is analysed, then, to what extent the didascalic exposes in an evident way not only diverse prefigurations of reading but also - and above all - the supplementary and indeterminate character of the same, since each one is, in its singularity, one possibility among others of that which is always to be done.
Flags, heraldics and fiction: approach to filmic vexillology
An important aspect of recent narratology is the relationship that semiotics has with the different aspects of the development of a plot in film and television. Nonethless, a neglected component of this relationship is the one that refers to the presence of vexillological symbols (flags and heraldry), the use of which has been important for the development of narrative structure and elocution. This article explores the facets and functions that the vexillological factor has as an integral part of a plot, with the aim of studying its semiotic behavior within the cinematographic narrative. Concepts related to semiotics are assumed and lines of research of interest for the study of audiovisual narrative are established. It is concluded that the narrative interest in the use of vexilological elements enriches the plot and contributes to enhance the aesthetic and media success of an audiovisual work.
The human body in still life and tableau representations
The article exposes the representation of still life and explains the difference between the concepts still life and tableau. Through documentary and visual analysis of images, it is explained that the representation of the human body in still life is scarce. In some pictorial works, still life or still life is present as a prop of the scene, where the human body interacts with food or objects. Photography exposes a horizontal relationship; that is, equal to equal, between the human body and objects or food, which is why the human body acquires relevance in the genre of still life or still life. This analysis allows us to glimpse that the human body and objects together configure a new categorical proposal in the genre of still life and enable a new system of meaning.
Ansí fabló Omero. Some remarks on the reception of the Ilias Latina in Spanish Medieval Literature
This work aims to revisit a topic that Hispanic philology and classical reception studies have been addressing for over a century. A recapitulation of the most notable issues involved in the study of the reception of the Ilias Latina in medieval Hispanic literature, along with an assessment of its critical history, is complemented by a series of textual analyses. Among these, a comparison of the treatment of the Patroclea episode in the Libro de Alexandre, the Grande e General Estoria, and the Omero romançado is highlighted, juxtaposed with the original Homeric text and the Ilias Latina itself. The goal is to determine the various modes and degrees in which the reception of the Latin epitome is manifested in the works under consideration.
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Being cochimí: ethnic identity of a people considered extinct
For almost a hundred years, the “Cochimí Nation” of the Baja California central desert was considered extinct due to the vicissitudes that it experienced from the colonial era, particularly the demographic debacle and the loss of its mother tongue. However, more than a decade ago descendants of this group re-emerged from oblivion and invisibility, updating their ethnic identity and demanding to be recognized as a living people. In this article I intend to show, in addition to some factors that led them to be considered extinct, the configuration of the Cochimí identity today, that is, its content, its limits and borders and, echoing their sentiments, show what for them and they is to be indigenous. In this way, this work aims to inspire a dialogue on the importance of recognition and respect for the various identities within the framework of interculturality, including those of native peoples who, despite sociocultural changes, continue to persist.
Dossier "Interculturalidad crítica en Latinoamérica: debates para el siglo XXI”
Afro literary walks. Intercultural poetics as forms and ways of inhabit(ing) and be(ing) in the world
Much ink and letters have managed to emerge in what we know as Latin America (originally Abya Yala). Words that have emerged from the literary journeys that have been configured in everyday life in all these intercultural and hybrid processes in which poetic warps are woven to describe the world of Afro life. That is why this writing is committed to an analysis of poetic writings that give an account of a place, of poets who are committed to a content where the struggles, characters, languages, intercultural practices and ways of drawing worlds, trajectories can be seen. and feelings of “the nobodies and the nobodies.” From a methodological point of view, it is proposed to take extracts from the poetic work of the Colombians Mary Grueso, Ashanti Dinah and the author’s, to analyze poetic figures that describe the world of life. Likewise this investigation is interested in seeing in the written text all the literary poetic expressions that were once recognized from the oral tradition, but today we find in texts that circulate in different formats and aim to constitute literatures that center their universe on the Afro. Many writings inherited from the two great exponents of the Negritude movement such as the Caribbeans Aimé Césaire and Leopold Sedar Senghor, from whom some opening poems of the writing will be taken into account. And how this movement enables the arrival of what was later called Black Poetry in Latin America.
Critical interculturality in the training of educators to make cultural stratifications visible
The critical-social paradigm conceives the school as a privileged place for transformative and emancipatory education, but to achieve a teaching practice that truly transforms the reality of diverse subjects, groups and people, it is necessary to provoke the reflections of trainers, starting from the problematization that implies the stratification of diversities and the disadvantages of subjects from an intersectional perspective. The asymmetries between cultures and within cultures are sustained in historical processes and dominant hegemonic logics, so normalized that it is difficult to see how they are reproduced in everyday life, in different spheres. Here, critical interculturality is the means to provoke reflections other that contribute to deactivate the symbolic violence implicit in the interactions and intersubjectivities in basic education. It is not only a matter of giving value to diversities, but also of emphasizing the power structures that maintain relations of subordination between cultures and territories. The article is divided into three sections: the first presents theoretical approaches to critical interculturality; the second refers to the stratification of diversities and the disadvantages of subjects from an intersectional perspective; and the third deals with approaches to inequality and symbolic violence with teachers, from the classroom and the student’s environment.
Non-linear relationships and resistance strategies of peasant knowledge in San Sebastian Tlacotepec, Puebla
The following article, based on ethnographic information collected in the field, from 2013 to 2023, in the municipality of San Sebastián Tlacotepec, presents an approach to the non-linear relationships involved in the configuration of peasant knowledge from a dialogue of knowledge. It analyzes how from the bonds of reciprocity and familiarity with human and non-human beings, strategies of resistance to capital, patriarchal and colonial modernity are built. The knowledge that is constructed in this context is not detached from the people who produce it, nor from their natural environment. The testimonies and experiences of the Nahuas of the Sierra Negra de Puebla allow us to problematize this category, not from a productivist posture that seeks to equate it to scientific knowledge to validate it, but from its affective and cosmogonic dimension in constant dialogue with the territory and memory.
Who is there? Critical interculturality and subalternities in inclusive education
The present work is based on a documentary analysis that is grounded in the theoretical convergence of two essential authors for analyzing and clarifying the concept of subalternity: Antonio Gramsci and Gayatri Spivak. Firstly, a review of Gramsci's analysis is conducted to describe three interrelated concepts in his work: hegemony, subalternity, and intellectuality, primarily based on the “Prison Notebooks”. Secondly, Spivak's work is described in her text "Can the Subaltern Speak?" Spivak discusses the role of Foucault and Deleuze as examples of Eurocentric intellectuals who reveal the existence of the Other and thereby exert epistemic violence in their theoretical constructions. Finally, an analysis is conducted on the importance of incorporating a perspective that breaks away from the generation of ontological binaries, which can be integrated into an inclusive education that embraces the co-creation of knowledge from a critical standpoint.
Texto Introductorio: Interculturalidad crítica en Latinoamérica: debates para el siglo XXI
Jiménez Yañez, C.E. y Mancinas-Chávez, R. (Coords.) (2021). Escritura académica con perspectiva de género. Propuestas desde la comunicación científica. Mexicali: Universidad Autónoma de Baja California; Sevilla: Universidad de Sevilla. ISBN: 978-60-76-0771-91, 217 pp.